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> Tag: rage

Serviceable mystery requiring some suspension of disbelief

Rage by Jonathan Kellerman

December 11, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Years ago I read a Faye Kellerman novel and hated it, which colored my expectations for this one (the two are married and both Faye and Jonathan write detective fiction). Despite my misgivings, this one was sitting on my shelf when I was looking for a Los Angeles setting, so into my reading rotation it went! (We had a fall trip to LA planned and I like to match my reading to the destination to build anticipation). Verdict: this was a serviceable mystery that had […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Jonathan Kellerman, rage

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Jonathan Kellerman, rage ·
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Year of Penny? EXCUSE ME, LIFE of Penny!

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

May 25, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

5/26 UPDATE: if you are curious and want to check out an excerpt, you can do so HERE! Do you miss Happy Endings? If you have seen the show, then the answer is obviously YES SO MUCH OH MY GOODNESS PLEASE COME BACK! If you have not seen the show, then what are you doing? Get out of here and inject all three seasons directly into your eyeballs before returning! Several days ago, the unfortunately canceled Happy Endings turned 10. 10! It seems like just yesterday, Alex […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: acting, audio, black monday, body image, Casey Wilson, david caspe, essay collection, grief, happy endings, loss, Marriage, Motherhood, rage, read by the author

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: acting, audio, black monday, body image, Casey Wilson, david caspe, essay collection, grief, happy endings, loss, Marriage, Motherhood, rage, read by the author ·
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Pearl Clutching

Rage by Bob Woodward

September 17, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Apparently, it took Bob Woodward 3.5 years and close to a thousand pages to deduce that Donald Trump is unfit to be President. Good job, Bob. Here’s a cookie. Like Fear, his other work on the Trump Administration, this is less a book with a narrative thread and more a collection of scattered anecdotes from various sources cobbled together the way someone cuts and pastes articles from a newspaper for a scrapbook. In reviewing a bad movie once, Jamelle Bouie said that the film was “the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bob Woodward, coronavirus, Donald Trump, rage

Jake's CBR12 Review No:145 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Bob Woodward, coronavirus, Donald Trump, rage ·
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“I look for something else I could do for work but feel unqualified for everything interesting and repulsed by everything else.”

The New Me by Halle Butler

April 12, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This very moment was the correct time for me to charge through this nasty (a compliment!) little slice of life. There was a time, not too long ago, that the crippling desperation of Millie would have felt far too familiar. There is a lot of Hannah Horvath (Girls) in Millie, and I found Girls very hard to stomach when I too was young, squandering privilege, and living like a recluse outside of my seriously uninspiring job. “Everyone thinks deep in their hearts (at least when they’re young, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: adulthood, black humor, Chicago, Depression, ennui, fast read, Halle Butler, rage, temp work, unreliable narrator ·
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Un.Be.Lievable.

Imbeciles by Adam Cohen

February 10, 2020 by octothorp 2 Comments

This is one of those books like The Handmaid’s Tale that you probably shouldn’t read while angry. Because DAMN, I’m just gonna lead with the horror – Buck v. Bell HASN’T BEEN STRUCK DOWN. This book follows the eugenics-led case to sterilize Carrie Bell because, in the words of presiding Supreme Court Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”  Except. Except. Except, you guys. She wasn’t. Her daughter wasn’t. Her mother wasn’t. She was inconvenient to her adoptive parents because she fell […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Adam Cohen, injustice, oliver wendell holmes, rage, what the hell

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Adam Cohen, injustice, oliver wendell holmes, rage, what the hell ·
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